29 Nov
2013
29 Nov
'13
12:52 p.m.
On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 07:58:19PM +0000, Tony Duell wrote:
I've lost patience with trying to get others ot do satisfacotry work for
me...
When I was at Bristol, we catually set-up an in-ohuse CPB production
facilty (for up to double sided boards) because every PCB manufacturer we
rtried was useless. For multi-layer boards we got some amazing results.
Layers missing. Layers in the wrong order (it matters a lot when you are
tryign to put striplines between 2 ground planes. i think once even a
layer mirror-reversed. And the number of bad tracks...
I am sure they're a lot better now. But for small PCBs it's a lot quicker
ot make them yourself.
Unless you need to make a lot of them, I would
have tought it was quicker
to crimp a ribbon cable to the Berg socket, splig the other ind into
individual wires and solder thsoe to the DB25 (or DE9) connecotr than to
etch and drill the PCB.
I lost patience with making my own PCBs eons ago (and anyway where I live these days has a septic tank which I'd rather not
take risks with), and I
*hate* *hate* *hate* soldering split-up ribbon cable (the insulation melts
away too easily and the wire turns super brittle at just the wrong place).
I've never had this problem. I must have soldered several hundred such
cables...
-tony